Can't Go Home Again /David Cassidy, Kim Carnes, Dave Ellingson/

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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yt-XSWeZlo&t=137s

It was one moment during that crazy Sydney's concert  on a hot day in March (1974 World Tour) , when David  Cassidy took his guitar and wanted his audience to stop screaming and listen to him for a change..And he started singing 'Can't Go Home Again' , and talking with his fans..A great song and what a performance..

The song was released on 'Dreams Are Nuthin' More Than Wishes' album in October 1973. At the time I had no idea about it and I never heard about Kim Carnes till 1981 when she had a massive world hit with 'Bette Davis Eyes', number 1 on the Billboard chart for 9 weeks, she got a Grammy Award for it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPOIS5taqA8

I loved the song and Kim's raspy voice and that video (amazing but it was often on our tv), I thought she looked so elegant and so different, so beautiful woman with such amazing blond hair.. It was many years later that I learned more about Kim, her husband Dave Ellingson and their friendship with a teen idol, David Cassidy.

They were older than David, Kim was born in 1945, Dave in 1942, they got married in 1967 ,and their marriage is still going strong. They started in the 60s as songwriters and session background singers. In 1971 they got a  proposition, just out of the blue  .Dave Ellingson: 'We got a call from Richard Delvy, who said :'Hey, do you wanna do this tour? He told us we had to stretch the show and asked if Kim and I could open. We never had a situation where you walk out and the entire sports arena yells in unison 'WE WANT DAVID!!' Kim and I just kind of looked at each other and went, 'Oh, this is gonna be fun''(David Cassidy:'Could It Be Forever', 2007)

They toured with David since that first memorable concert in Seattle in 1971, they even wrote their own column in Partridge Family Magazine, but what was the most important ,they became very close friends.Kim Carnes :'Our house became a safe place for him.We'd get  out a bottle of wine and smoke a joint and put on this collection of really crazy, bad records, and laugh just as hard every time about them (..) It was just the three of us. We would go well into the night, and many nights he ended up sleeping on our couch (..) He could be just David, and say anything he wanted,and just be real (..) David had a wonderful sense of humor. He had the best laugh, the best smile and the biggest heart.I think he was always searching for love'(www.rollingstone.Kim Carnes Recalls Wild Times With Teen Idol, November 22, 2017)

They wrote and recorded some beautiful songs together , the three of them - 'Can't Go Home Again' and 'Preyin' On My Mind', David wrote with Kim 'Song For a Rainy Day' , with Dave 'Fix Of Your Love'. He also recorded Dave's song ' Some Kind Of  A Summer'.

Kim :' And now that it has ended the wrong way , in a way it was never supposed to end, I can't get it (Can't Go Home Again) out of my head..Little did we know that we were kind writing about David's life, too, when we were writing that song..'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoGPe6ZWE_E

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